Diane Felch died last week at age 60. Her husband, Howard, died in 1994 after the two raised seven children in Raymond.

"He had cancer, and he died when we were all young," said the couple's daughter, Cheryl Denbow. "I was 13. The oldest child was 14, down to 5."

The children said they remember where they were standing when their father was laid to rest at New Pine Grove Cemetery.

"There was a cross here, and my sister, Courtney, used to come here after school and bury pennies," Denbow said.

The family moved away shortly after. Nearly 20 years later, their hope was to bury their parents together. But the homemade cross marking Howard Felch's grave was gone -- there had been no money at the time for a headstone -- and the town couldn't find a deed to verify that he was in the cemetery at all.

"How do you not know where a man's buried?" said his daughter-in-law, Justine Felch. "What'd you do, just toss him somewhere? I mean, they were here for the burial. They were kids, but they were here."

Town Manager Craig Wheeler took the case on himself.

"I continue to work to see if we can find that location," he said. "I'm sensitive to the family's concerns. We want to be respectful of them, and I will continue to do that."

Late Wednesday afternoon, on the eve of Diane Felch's burial, the town located the paperwork. It's not clear what happened, but the family is relieved.

The town will exhume the urn holding Howard Felch's remains at no cost to the family, and Thursday, husband and wife will be reunited.

"She wanted to be with my dad," Denbow said. "That was her only guy. That's what I want for her."

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